The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-30
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


1t will be publicly unveiled sometime in the COM
ing spring.
Providence Telegram: IT have a theory
about the dead languages" remarked Brown
University freshman. 81 think they were killed
by being studied too hard"
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, of Wales, has COM
pleted his twenty-third year, but is still one of
the least known members Of the royal family.
He seldom appears in public
UNITED STATES SENATOR RANsoM's wife is
one of the best educated women in the South. A
lady friend writes that Mrs Ransom ittedi each
one Of her six sons for college.
WITH steathy hand he strove to clip
One golden ringet from her head.
'Ah, don't!" Then, with smiling lip,
They are my sister James, she said.
-Harper's Magazine.
THE wife Of Senator elect Davis, of Minnesota,
is described brilliant conversationaIst and
not less brilliant musician; dashing equestrienre
and fearless driver; TALL graceful and exquisitely
beautiful.
WILLIAM CoNNERs, Of Springfield. ILL.,, has
paid in black mail S., 200 to man who knew that
when Corners was BOY he stole a dozen eggs.
Conners has finally quit the payments confessed
his fault and paid for the eggs.
One of the wealthest heiresses of the Pacific
coast is Miss Augustine Haraszthy, the daughter
Oh the CaiIOrn1d champagne mliUCndlre. her
father is an Hungarian. and her mother a mem
Der Of an old and noble Castilian family She is
said to possess remarkable beauty.
NINE. MoDJEsEA says Boston is SO English
city that if Queen Victoria were to become the
owner of America and come hther the Boston
ians would promptly welcome her, and say:
Here we are; we have been Waiting for you
all these years and ares your eyer-faithful sub
jects."
DAPJs correepnndont haars &hot Mroo Patti;
has made a will by which she leaves half her
fortune to her husband, a fourth to her brother
in-law, NJ. Strakosch, and the remainder to form
prizes for the musical education of young girls
iE the cities where she has made her greatest
triumphS.
EMIN BEY, whom Stanley is about to hunt up,
says, in letter received from him in July last,
that his ammunition would fail by December,
and that he could hold out for half year more
if not attacked by wild tribes Stanley must
take large amount of ammunition with him,
as he attacks the wild tribes.
PRESIDENT lGREvY, of France, was found, the
other dry, reading book OF fairy tales "You
are relieving your mind from politics, Monsieur
lie PRESIDENT" observed the visitor "Oh not
at all, was the reply II am obliged to read all
these books. My granddaughter says she has
had enough of the old stories, and SO l must
learn some new ones"
Saturday. was the widow of the late Allan
Pinkerton. Mrs. Pinkerton was born in Edin-
burgh, Scotland. more than sixty-five years ago.
She married Allan Pinkerton in Glasgow in 1912.
Two sons, William A. and Robert, the present
managers of the detective agency bearing their
fathers name, survive their parents.
Poor old Bazaihe is Eever to be forgiven.
All France is raging against him anew on the
strength of the alleged discovery of another
of his plots. The bit of treason in ques-
ton the studying, in 1884, of the southern
slopes and passes of the Pyrenees, with view
of Spanish invasion of France OF such wild
tales are Boulanger's nightmares made.
Mrs. CLARA DoANE, of Harw;chport, Cape
| Cod, celebrated her ninety-ffth birthday on the
| goth inst She received her guests with an old
| tobacco pipe in her mouth. and smoked through
out her reception. She said to one of her nor
rifed lady callers: I've been a-smokin' now
nigh on to eighty years. and if there's anything
that's kept me alive all these years, it's tobacco
| Mr.. W. II. BEARD. the artist, has made a
study for large picture to be entitled, 1.-The
Power Of Death" Weirdly depicted is half
clothed figure with deaths head. one hand
| grasping tiger in the throes of dissolution the
other a withered tree, while foot rests or
| the PROSTATE form of dead elephant In the
| background, which is desolate and gloomy, Is a
dead lion.
IT is said that few days ago member of
| Congress took part in the Iong-and short haul
discussion. II feel it my duty" he said, "tc
/ vote for this measure" The alert cores pond
emit Of San Francisco paper telegraphed this
utterance, adding in parentheses, after the word
| measure" the words '.long and short haul
The sentence was printed as follows II feel Il
my duly to vote for this measure. Long ani
short howls.
PRESIDENT D. G. GILMAN, of Johns Hopkins
University, says that for girl or boy there il
nothing better than the needle and scissors
| and, particularly for the boy, the iack-knife
| that still more fundamental is the pencil which
enables one to delineate with more precision
than the pen what one wishes to express; an6
| that man is better thinker and a more accu
| rate worker it he can reproduce with his HAND
| what he has thought with his brain.
AN old time curious custom recently occurred
at the court of Berlin. Every year the salter
of Halle are entitled to present to the king ant
heir-apparent their vows for the new year. o.
the Sd of January, at 3 p NJ, the salters calle,
op his Majesty and "Unser Fritz" with the ira
ditional presents. which consisted of six sau
sages, salted tart and twenty five hard boile,
eggs cooked in sailed water. These traditiona
comestibles were served up at the table of tn
Emperor.
THE Macon Telegraph wants toboggan slide
and tells how to make one that the heat won
hurt. It selects certain hill in the city, an
then says: Buy enough twelve inch plank
planned on one SIDE to make, when stood on edge
smooth side in. double line from the hilltop t
the bottom. The width of the space betwee
these two lines of plank should be about ten fee,
and the ground smoothed with hoe. Over i
, | spread pine straw six inches deep. The stra,
can be hauled from the woods in wagons. MAI
two barrel-staves under plank of equal len 9Th
grease the slaves and then get on. The ride
will fird himself tobogganing at terrific rate {
speed, and accidents will be almost impossible.
MADAME De MoNTHoLoN, widow of the celt
brated Count Charles Tristan de Montholon, VIII
: accompanied the first Napoleon to St Helens
has just died at Bordeaux. She was eighty-fv